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1. The Wye
You are an Xtra Crew sent out to the Wye to sort out the
mess.
Car 'A' and Car 'B' are in the wrong place. You must reverse their
positions.
There are no 'drops' allowed, and you must be able to return to
your present position with the Locomotive. Bye the way, that 68
foot locomotive won't fit in the spur!
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In a hypothetical arrangement, it is determined that
in the case of a division of Canadian Pacific Railway into separate
corporate entities that will remain answerable to CPL, a fleet
of GP9 locomotives will be divided as follows;
1. CP ‘Core' will retain half of the fleet.
2. The St. Lawrence and Hudson, including the Delaware and Hudson,
will receive half of what
The ‘Core' gets.
3. The Soo Line, is entitled to half of the number that STLH is
entitled to.
4. The Canadian Atlantic Railway would be entitled to the same
number as the Soo.
During the course of events, the C.A.R. has been sold, and is
no longer entitled.
After the sale, the division takes place, and, except for C.A.R.,
each companies proportion of assets due, remain in effect.
After an inventory audit, it is found, that the total number of
GP 9's is 42.
The CEO has a dilemma, no locomotive can be divided in two, and
no GP9's may be shared amongst the three. The CFO tries desperately
to make some new kind of arrangement with STLH and Soo Line, but
to no avail. Finally, a wise old engineer becomes aware of the
predicament, and sees the solution immediately! He quickly e-mails
the CEO, and all companies get exactly the proportions they were
entitled to. The names of the ‘wise old engineers' who can
find the same solution will be published in the order they respond
, and the answer will be available in April.
To clarify; The C.A.R. is gone and does not come into the equation.
We are left with; Core Railway recieving one half ---Stlh Railway
recieving one half of what core recieves---and Soo Line recieving
one half of what Stlh recieves. At NO TIME does any railway recieve
more or less than a complete unit! There can be no rounding off!
Your
Answer is...
Some good responses, but the Wise old engineer must
be holding back!
Brother Van gent has the correct number, but has arrived at his
answer by rounding off units. That is not allowed!
Hint ; Consider the division by what the fractions add up to,
(half /quarter/eighth).
Now do the math!
Armed with the knowledge that all railway cars built
in North America must stringently adhere to one airbrake specification,
namely that the volume of the auxiliary reservoir on a given
railcar, must be exactly two and one half times larger than the
volume of its brake cylinder,
and remember that with a full set brake, your original auxiliary
pressure minus the brake reduction, is equal to the resulting
brake cylinder pressure.
You have 84psi at the head end of a 100 car train, and sadly,
due to taper, the tail end car will
only pressurize to 77psi.
For some reason, your safety control device trips.
What is the ratio of head end to tail end deceleration, provided
the braking efficiency factor
on every car is the same? (Assume that there is no time factor
involved between reducing
the trainline on the head end and that of the tail end as impossible
as that may be, to simplify your calculation.)
Here is a situation that commonly occurred in the old
days, we'll just spice it up
with familiar trains, and sidings of old.
Number 80 is southbound with 100 wagons.
The ‘Bullet' 955, is going north with 100 cars.
Due to some unfortunate timing, they are forced to meet at Beeton.
Beeton is a 50 car siding.
They may not exchange any cars or motive power for the remainder
of the trip.
How did they pass each other?
*NOTE; you must not remarshall your trains!
The First one in with the correct answer is Brother
Brisson @ 2/23/2000 12:46:31 PM Eastern Standard Time
Brother Van Gent has a creative mind.
In his unique answer, he has been able to solve the dilemna, without
955 making a cut, not only that, but, in his answer, no train
has made a reverse movement without being protected by the other.
The RTC is pleased !
You have the roadrailer today, and have gone into emergency
on the Humber bridge.
Of course you had immediately recieved protection, you are on
Go train time, so when the conductor concludes that a valve was
stuck open, and not a breach of the south track, he instructs
you to cancel the protection, you do so, and he fixes the air
problem. As he reaches a point 3/8 of the way across the bridge,
the Go train is approaching and, with nowhere to get out of the
way, he begins to run at 10mph. Just at the time the Go train
enters on to the bridge, he has reached the same point, and dives
to safe ground! If he had run in the other direction, he would
also have made it to safety just in the nick of time. What was
the speed of the Go train?
Brother Brisson nailed this one down at: 4/5/2000 12:42:33 PM
Your train has moved northward on the west track by
signal indication, to work at Emery, on the Mactier sub. The east
track is out of service account a TOP. After finishing up at Emery,
you make a reverse movement, and just before you go by the restricting,
intermediate signal at Finch, a northbound accepts the clear to
stop signal on a follow up and continues at track speed, only
concerned with being able to stop at the Finch signal. You are
moving at 15 mph adjacent to the steel company. You have one arm
out the window, and a chicken sandwich in the other. You have
a twoney and three quarters. You are wearing a white t-shirt and
blue-jeans with your safety boots untied.
1.What do you do when you see the northbound comming at you around
the curve?
2.What was on the chicken sandwich?
3.What was your conductors name?
Your Answer is
(Hint: If you are seriously thinking
about a solution to this one, you definitely need to get some
rest!)
Brother Lokun, with a full understanding of the hopelessness
of the situation, and an inane sense of humour to the very end,
wrote;
1. get off for a good-bye inspection
2. Colonel Sanders(his body preserved with 34 herbs and spices)
3. Shack (cracker was the brakeman)
New 04/11/200
7. The Interlocking
During the storm, three snow-plow extras are stopped
by the snow plow foremen at the same interlocking, before coming
to their perspective signals. The foremen disembark and climb
into a taxi. Apparently, they are not familiar with the territory
ahead, and three foremen await boarding on the other side of the
signals. Their approaching plow train is in clear view, and all
but for the signal, they can control the movement.
There is a flurry on the airwaves with the interlocking director
because not one engineer can see the signal directly in front,
which pertains to his train.
Each can, however, through the side windows ascertain the indication
for the
other two trains, EXCEPT the engineer on CP8921, who cannot see
any signals at all.
In the special instructions, for this interlocking, all signals
will only display either ; Restricting (yellow) ;or Slow to Clear
(green).
The train movement director comes on the radio, and tells each
of the engineers that at least one of the three trains has a restricting
signal.
Each engineer confirms recieving the message.
No train may proceed, unless certain of their signal aspect, and calling their signal on the radio, otherwise, termination of employment.
If no train proceeds within a reasonable time, all three engineers will be replaced, only getting a basic day's pay.
Train movement director: ....CP snow plow extra 4242......
Can you determine your signal indication?, over.......
Engineer on 4242.... TMD, this is CP4242, negative, out.
Train movement director:....CP snow plow extra 5555.......
Can YOU determine your signal indication?, over.......
Engineer on 5555.... TMD, this is CP5555, negative, out.
At this point, the engineer on the snow plow extra CP 8921, calls out a _______signal, and the foreman responds positively to the forward movement and the CP 8921 proceeds.
1. What signal was displayed for the Snow plow extra
CP 8921 ?
2. How did the engineer ascertain that fact?
Click
Here to see a photograph taking you
back in time and try to identify the space;
1.: What is the location? You must have a specific mileage, or
an exact location.
2.: By direction alone, is the train, inferior, or superior?
3.: By class?
4.: Is the train cleared beyond the station?
5.: Bonus questions;
a) The Engine CP136, is still around the geographic locale of
Division 295, where? b) You see the young fellow in the foreground,
watching the train? Not the one nearest the tracks, the one next
to him. Like a ghost from the past,
to this very day, he appears at the same location every evening!-If
you can guess his identity, then you can probably guess the year
in which the picture was taken, +/- 2yrs, I am sure there will
be some smart ass answers to this one!
Now click here to Travel ahead in Time
Dave Clifford answers with diplomacy :
It appears to me that this locomotive is showing white flags...
therefore
the Extra 136 West is stopped or proceeding slowly past at the
Train Order
Signal in front of the old Cooksville Station at Mile 14.2 Galt
Sub.
Being an extra, the train is inferior by both class
and direction
(westward). The train is cleared past the station, since the order
board is
showing Rule 401c, Proceed - no orders.
Bonus A: This locomotive is still in regular (summer)
service on the South
Simcoe Railway at Tottenham.
Bonus B: That can't be...no! there's no way he's that OLD.
Dave Clifford
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